Fire Monster

Chapter 235 Demon Suppression Tower

"Another point is that in the spiritual world, you can't mobilize the power of heaven and earth for your own use like in reality. Therefore, the magical powers and techniques in the real world are of little significance in the spiritual world. You can neither fly with a sword nor wield sword energy."

"Normally, there are two combat modes. I think you already know them."

"The first method is to control the spirit soldiers to attack at the cost of consuming the power of the soul. It is similar to the sword control technique and is very powerful. But in fact, unless you have too much soul power and have nowhere to put it, it is best not to do this. When the soul power is exhausted, it will be difficult to move in the spirit world."

"The second method is to transform the spiritual weapon into common weapons and armor through visualization, and then fight like a mortal. This is the most cost-effective method, especially after the spiritual weapon is covered and strengthened with spiritual ash, the effect will be surprisingly good. For example, our captain has a long sword that has been covered and strengthened with spiritual ash six times, and its lethality is huge."

"But even if you choose the second fighting method, you can't just visualize it randomly. The spirit world is extremely dangerous. Every time you go out, you must be in a group of multiple people, so cooperation is also very important."

"For a five-member team like ours, we have our own division of labor. I am the scout, the team is the center, Yang Jin is the left vanguard, Chu Mo is the right vanguard, and Yao Cheng is the foot."

"Once you discover the enemy and enter combat mode, you must not panic."

"And the reason why I'm introducing so much to you is because I'm going to take you into action next."

When Yu Huan said this, he nodded to the other four people. They had obviously already decided how to deal with Zhao Guanshan, who was a conspicuous person.

It's not appropriate to put Zhao Guanshan in any position. Not only is there a worry that he will mess up, but the main reason is that there is no trust in him.

Then put Zhao Guanshan in the front to follow the scouts, so that if there is any unexpected situation, the four people behind can also respond flexibly.

Zhao Guanshan was also well aware of this, and could only say that Ding Daoren's witcher team was quite cautious.

He had originally planned to introduce himself in detail, but now he had to give up and let the facts speak for themselves.

Yu Huan said nothing more after that. She gestured to Zhao Guanshan and walked forward quickly with light steps. No one knew how she walked, but she made no sound on the sand. The huge cloak on her body dragged on the ground, just covering up the footprints she left.

Zhao Guanshan also hurriedly followed. He was quite experienced in hiding.

The two of them led the way in front, while Ding Daoren and the other four followed about 300 meters behind them. Among them, Yang Jin and Chu Mo, the two vanguards on the left and right, opened up a distance of 100 meters to each wing. In this way, they could not only provide arc support to the scouts in front, but also conduct reconnaissance on both wings and avoid being caught in one fell swoop.

In addition, no one knew what means they used. At first, Zhao Guanshan could still see them when he looked back, but after walking for a distance, he could not see them when he looked back.

“Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, don’t be distracted. Our cloaks have been reinforced three times with spiritual ash. They have a unique concealing effect in this sea of ​​​​skeleton sand. It is easy to be invisible if you are more than fifty steps away.”

"Also, no matter what happens next, don't panic."

Yu Huan explained and reminded Zhao Guanshan very patiently, probably because he was afraid that he would fall behind.

They moved forward in this boring way, and every time they walked about ten miles, Yu Huan would take out a piece of jade and operate it. This seemed to be the road-protecting jade that Ding Daoren mentioned, and it even had the function of sensing direction and adjusting route. No wonder they were not worried about getting lost.

So, in just half a day, Zhao Guanshan saw the half-collapsed Skull Mountain again.

My goodness, he walked in the desert for seventeen or eighteen days, but the actual straight-line distance was less than two hundred miles?

Zhao Guanshan felt helpless.

"That's it, that's it!"

Yu Huan was very excited after seeing the collapsed Skull Mountain.

"Fellow Daoist Yu, what happened? Should we go to investigate at Skull Mountain?" Zhao Guanshan asked in a low voice.

"No, it's too dangerous there. Let's stop here. Our mission has been completed. Let's go!"

Yu Huan carefully waved the protective jade towards the Skull Mountain in front of him, then turned around and left.

Zhao Guanshan hurried to catch up, but he could roughly guess in his heart, from Yu Huan's excited and surprised tone just now, that the expeditionary army led by the evil spirit general probably ended the battle hastily, giving the witcher stronghold of Cangwu Taoist Palace a chance to catch their breath.

So these witchers were puzzled and sent out a team to investigate the truth. Well, it turned out that the evil spirit's lair was destroyed.

Zhao Guanshan laughed silently. This could be considered his contribution, although he couldn't say it out loud.

On the way back, Yu Huan's mood obviously became very good. He asked him many questions about the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace and also gave a brief introduction to the situation of the Cangwu Taoist Palace.

They returned safely on the way. When they finally arrived at the base of the Witchers of Cangwu Taoist Palace, it was already the fourth day. They had walked nearly a thousand miles.

No wonder Zhao Guanshan never ran into the witcher in the past year. They were really too far away.

However, when Zhao Guanshan saw the half-collapsed Skeleton Mountain again, he was still quite surprised even though he had expected it.

"Are you surprised? But this is normal. The entire spirit world is desert. There is no other environment. The only place where people can survive is this Skull Mountain. No one knows how this Skull Mountain was formed. But it is indeed the strongest substance in the spirit world."

"It is thanks to these skull mountains that we witchers have a chance to gain a foothold in the spirit world."

"For example, the Skull Mountain in our Cangwu Taoist Palace is said to have been captured from an evil spirit by our predecessors 1,700 years ago. The battle was extremely fierce at that time, and even a mountain as solid as the Skull Mountain was half collapsed."

While Yu Huan was speaking, he waved the protective jade towards Skull Mountain and then stopped.

"Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, we have to hand over the mission. We will say goodbye now. Other demon hunters will come to hand over to you and confirm your identity. You can return directly to the Linjiangfu Taoist Palace in the real world from here, but if you want to come to the spirit world in the future, you can only work for my Cangwu Taoist Palace, haha!"

"That's right, Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, see you later!"

Ding Daoren, Yang Jin, Chu Mo, and Yao Cheng also bowed to Zhao Guanshan and left in a graceful manner.

After a while, two cloaked witchers really came hurriedly from the Skull Mountain.

"May I ask if you are Zhao Chengfeng from the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace?"

"It's me!" "I'm sorry, we can't contact the Demon Suppression Tower of the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace in the Spirit World that you mentioned. Excuse me, your Taoist Palace is probably very weak in the Spirit World, so we can't prove your identity. Now you have two choices."

"First, we will provide you with a safe offline space in the spirit world, allowing you to leave the spirit world immediately and return to reality. But after you leave, we will help you destroy this offline space. From now on, you will never be able to come to our Cangwu Taoist Palace's Spirit World Demon Suppression Tower again. You can contact your Taoist Palace later. You must have your own Demon Suppression Tower. It's easier to cooperate with your own people, right?"

"Secondly, you can choose to become a demon hunter of the Cangwu Taoist Palace. From now on, the Demon Suppression Tower of the Cangwu Taoist Palace will be your offline location, unless our Demon Suppression Tower is destroyed. During this period, you need to take out three months every year to perform tasks in the spirit world. At the same time, you can also use this method as a bridge to communicate between the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace and the Cangwu Taoist Palace, and conduct some transactions with each other. What I mean, fellow Taoist Chengfeng, do you understand?"

"Okay, I choose the second option. I am willing to become a demon hunter of Cangwu Taoist Palace."

Zhao Guanshan didn't even hesitate, so what was there to hesitate about?
Reality is reality, and the spiritual world is the spiritual world.

In reality, he is just a nobody, but after becoming a witcher in the spirit world, he becomes a dealer between the two great avenues. If he doesn't make a fortune, he would be betraying his conscience.

"Haha, this is a wise choice. Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, please go in. The first thing you need to do now is to log in to the Demon Suppression Tower. This is also the most important way to verify your identity."

The two witchers were very happy. Nowadays, many cultivators stayed in the real world and were unwilling to come to the spirit world to be witchers, so having one more fighting force was a great benefit.

Next, the two of them led the way and took Zhao Guanshan to climb up the Skull Mountain. Except for the absence of those smelly and dirty "feces"-like substances, this place was not much different from the Skull Mountain over there.

However, there were no large pieces of collapsed rocks to be seen. In fact, there was not even any rubble. The witchers of the Cangwu Taoist Palace would certainly not let go of such a treasure.

There are also some very obvious building ruins here, but they have all been tidied up, and in some key locations, you can still see witchers standing guard.

"These buildings were left by our ancestors, but it is impossible to determine from which era these ancestors lived."

After circling around like this, they soon entered the interior of Skull Mountain. Then Zhao Guanshan was stunned because he saw a very familiar scene, which was exactly the same as the space of his statue.

A tall round tower stands in the center. On the platform of the tower, there are five statues of gods that are several dozen meters high. Below the statues are identical stone platforms.

And under this tall tower is a huge circular plaza with a diameter of more than five kilometers.

In the square, surrounding the Demon-Suppressing Tower in the center, there are thirty-six ordinary statues that look no different from ordinary humans.

Outside these statues are a large number of small huts, but most of them are empty, giving people a very desolate feeling.

In fact, since Zhao Guanshan entered Skull Mountain, the total number of witchers he had seen did not exceed fifty.

At this time, he even saw Ding Daoren, Yu Huan, Yang Jin, Chu Mo, and Yao Cheng. They entered from the other end of the square, where several witchers were handing over to them.

In short, Zhao Guanshan felt like it was a makeshift team.

“Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, this is the Demon Suppression Tower of our Cangwu Dao Palace. The five Dharma images on top of the Demon Suppression Tower are the five supreme masters of our Cangwu Dao Palace. Of course, unless there is a major crisis, they will not show up easily. Now they are all in charge of the Cangwu Dao Palace in the real world.”

"And the thirty-six Dharma images below the Demon Suppression Tower are also the backbone of our Cangwu Dao Palace. Each of them is an eighth-level Qi Refiner in the real world."

"However, they will not stay in the spirit world permanently. Currently, the only ones who stay here permanently are our team of ten demon hunters. Now, Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, please touch the Demon Suppression Tower and visualize falling into a deep sleep at the same time. If nothing unexpected happens, you will be able to return to the Linjiang Prefecture Dao Palace within three counts."

"However, you need to return here within three days. This is the return positioning ash given to you by Cangwu Dao Palace."

"Remember, this spirit ash is very important. Without sufficient and accurate positioning of the spirit ash, you are very likely to be randomly teleported to somewhere in the spirit world again. You won't be so lucky next time."

"In addition, this is a letter from my Cangwu Taoist Palace to the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace. I would like to trouble you to deliver it to the headmaster of your Taoist Palace. If possible, next time you return, please be sure to bring back a letter from the headmaster of the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace, or someone of equivalent status."

After saying that, the man handed Zhao Guanshan a ball of ash the size of a soybean and a jade slip.

"Okay, I remember."

Zhao Guanshan answered very solemnly, and then under the gaze of the two men, he reached out and touched the Demon-Suppressing Tower. As he expected, the building materials of this Demon-Suppressing Tower were all made of a whole piece of rock from Skull Mountain. Just by touching it, he could sense his statue space very clearly.

No, you can even skip the statue space and return directly to reality.

But if that happened, all the spiritual weapons he had on him would be left here, just like he was in his statue space, all the spiritual weapons would be kept there and could not be brought back to reality.

Although Zhao Guanshan trusted Cangwu Taoist Palace very much, he didn't want to do this.

So, he immediately pressed the Demon-Suppressing Tower with one hand, but in fact he was quite distant. The next second, he chose to rely on his purple fire dagger to return to the statue space, but at the moment of returning, he controlled it with his mind and left his novice cloak behind.

In an instant, he disappeared from the spot, and his novice cloak fluttered down and was caught by one of the witchers. After a quick inspection, he smiled.

"He evolved from the Lihuo Spirit Soldier and has not been strengthened. It seems that he is really a new recruit who came here by mistake. By the way, can you track down his whereabouts?"

"No, it's too far away, unless the five Dao ancestors take action personally, but you know how that is impossible, the five Dao ancestors have been in seclusion for hundreds of years."

"Yes, the Taoist master has not come out, there is no new knowledge of the Taoist tradition, and the Taoist masters on duty do not pay attention to the spirit world. Now there are only fifty demon hunters left in the Demon Suppression Tower in the Spirit World. This time it was a fluke that the evil spirit general suddenly withdrew his army. Otherwise, our Cangwu Taoist Palace's Demon Suppression Tower in the Spirit World would be in danger!"

"Well, let's just maintain it for now. At least after we get through this disaster, we can still have a few decades of peace and stability."

"I just hope that this Taoist friend Zhao Chengfeng can bring some good news. As long as it is confirmed that the Linjiangfu Taoist Palace has new Taoist knowledge that our Cangwu Taoist Palace does not have, the Taoist Palace's rotating masters will pay attention to the spiritual world again."

"Hehe, do you think it's possible? Our Cangwu Taoist Palace has already collected all the magical runes under the five Taoist runes of Lihuo, Xuanwu, Qingmu, Qianjin, and Genshan. The spirit world no longer has any new traditions and knowledge for us. Otherwise, why do you think those rotating masters no longer focus on supporting the spirit world demon hunters? It's no longer profitable!"

"Only those of us who have no hope of advancing would think of trying our luck in the spirit world."

"Let's wait and see what kind of surprises Daoist Fellow Zhao Chengfeng can bring within three days! Of course, we also have to prepare some specialties of Cangwu Dao Palace for him."

"Specialties? Just a few should be enough. I'm afraid that the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace is no longer viable. Just think of it as helping out our poor relatives."

"Haha! Better not to be too proud."

(End of this chapter)